The Honor Girl

After reading some wonderful quotes at Neat and Dainty as a Flower, I picked up an old Grace Livingston Hill book called The Honor Girl at our church. I had attempted to read a GLH book years ago, but didn’t read past the first few pages. I couldn’t get into it and didn’t know what all the fuss was about.

I’m so glad that I read The Honor Girl and stuck with it past the first chapter. The book is filled with all sorts of homemaking scenes and examples of family loyalty that inspired me. I found myself wishing that the book was mine so that I could highlight it as I went. The homemaking descriptions of a teenage girl who was mature way beyond what most girls are today was amazing and encouraging to me. It highlighted the real beauty and importance of the work done in the home by women and how much men need a woman’s presence in the home. Her family loyalty, even at the expense of the poor opinions and critical mouths of others, shouted lessons seldom heard today. Today’s world screeches, ” do things in your own best interests,” but the lessons were the opposite in The Honor Girl. It says that it is a romance book, but there was very little romance in it.

Because of time, I won’t copy down the quotes here, but you may read some from this book and other GLH books at Neat and Dainty as a Flower. I strongly urge you to read The Honor Girl and share it with your teen daughters. I believe they will be inspired along with you. You can find used copies at Amazon.com.

Janet
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. ~Psalms 19:14